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Jessica Balzano & Kevin ByrneSéries

Cette série plonge dans la réalité sombre de l'application de la loi à Philadelphie, suivant deux officiers dévoués naviguant dans la pègre de la ville. Chaque épisode offre un mélange d'action palpitante, d'intrigues complexes et de questions morales difficiles. Les lecteurs seront captivés par les enquêtes à enjeux élevés et les vies personnelles de ceux qui luttent pour la justice.

The Doll Maker
Broken Angels
Play dead
The Killing Room
The echo man
Psycho

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  1. 1

    Déviances

    4,0(6314)Évaluer

    Kevin Byrne est un vétéran de la police criminelle de Philadelphie. Flic usé, détruit par ses années de service, il doit faire équipe avec Jessica Balzano, nouvelle venue dans le service, lorsqu'une adolescente fréquentant une école catholique de la ville est retrouvée violée et atrocement mutilée, les mains jointes dans un geste de prière. C'est le début d'un terrible voyage au cœur des ténèbres pour les deux flics qui, lancés sur la piste d'un tueur aussi terrifiant que machiavélique, devront affronter leurs propres démons, alors que la ville est prête à basculer dans la folie. Dans la lignée du Silence des agneaux et du Dalhia noir, Déviances, best-seller dans plus de dix pays, a imposé d'emblée Richard Montanari comme l'une des voix les plus puissantes et les plus sombres du thriller contemporain.

    Déviances
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  3. 3

    Broken Angels

    • 528pages
    • 19 heures de lecture
    4,1(1377)Évaluer

    When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. And again

    Broken Angels
  4. 4

    Play dead

    • 381pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(144)Évaluer

    Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first assignment from the Cold Case files is a gruesome murder of a young girl in the Philadelphia Badlands, a bleak and desolate area of crime and depravity. Carefully posed, the lifeless girl is perfectly framed in a square window.Soon another Badlands runaway is found viciously murdered, this time arranged on the roof of a building shaped like a triangle.As the victims add up, each body tells an increasingly grisly story. A seemingly unrelated crime scene leads Byrne and Balzano to an eccentric older woman who introduces them to a Tangram puzzle, an ancient code of shapes.When the woman takes her own life, she leaves behind a cryptic clue, a word composed of four worn Scrabble tiles: LUDO, the Latin word for game. There is a foul breath of evil blowing through these murderous geometric puzzles and as more runaways vanish and more shapes are revealed, Byrne and Balzano soon realize that the homicidal mastermind plans to complete all seven forms of his dark and twisted Tangram puzzle.Unless they can stop him first?

    Play dead
  5. 5

    The echo man

    3,9(91)Évaluer

    It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of a man has been found in one of the poorest neighbourhoods. When homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano investigate, they soon realise that their crime scene is linked to an unsolved case. Eight years ago, another body was found in the same position, killed in the same manner. Apart from this killer's unusual calling cards, the crime scene photos are identical. As another body appears, then another, it becomes horrifyingly clear that someone is recreating unsolved murders from Philadelphia's past. And the killer is closer than they think ...

    The echo man
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    The Killing Room

    4,0(154)Évaluer

    Packed with ingenious twists and relentless excitement, and starring two of the most compelling heroes in crime fiction, The Killing Room is a major thriller event: the best novel yet from one of the world's best suspense writers

    The Killing Room
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    The Stolen Ones

    • 458pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    4,0(91)Évaluer

    Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets; by day he roams the catacombs beneath the city. Luther is everywhere and nowhere; he's is in your dreams - and your nightmares. Then Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head. But this is just the beginning of a trail of evil that will lead Byrne and Balzano back to the hospital, to a missing girl and to a horror they could never have imagined ...

    The Stolen Ones
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    The Doll Maker

    • 485pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    4,1(171)Évaluer

    The terrifying new Byrne and Balzano case from the author of The Killing Room and The Stolen Ones.

    The Doll Maker
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    Shutter Man

    3,8(53)Évaluer

    Your face is a blur to him. But your body still bleeds. The Farren family has been a plague upon Philadelphia's most dangerous neighbourhood, the Devil's Pocket, for generations. There, row after row of tumbledown houses hide dark secrets - none darker than Billy, the youngest Farren. Afflicted by a syndrome that means he can't recognise faces, Billy must use photographs to identify his family - and his victims. And when your life has bled away, he takes a final, gruesome picture for his wall. But what is the meaning of the horrific ritual Billy enacts with every murder? And is there any connection to a childhood event Detective Kevin Byrne has buried so well it's hidden even from his former partner Jessica Balzano?

    Shutter Man